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A clothed, standing figure with one leg forward and one arm raised to the chest raised on a tall, circular plinth with a decorative bronze band at the foot and a bracketed cornice with inset bronze panels on a stepped base. William McKinnon, born in Campbeltown, was president of the Imperial British East India Company, one of whose objectives was the elimination of the slave trade. The statue, originally erected in Mombasa, Kenya, in 1900, was moved to Dunbarton School in 1964 and re-erected in Campbelltown in 2004.

Title

William MacKinnon (1823–1893)

Date

1900 or before

Medium

bronze

Accession number

PA28_PA_S008

Work type

Statue

Work status

extant

Listing status

B (Scotland)

Unveiling date

2004

Listing date

31/01/84

Access

at all times

Inscription description

around plinth: SIR WILLIAM MACKINNON, BARONET, C.I.E, / OF LOUP AND STRATHAIRD, SCOTLAND, / FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE IMPERIAL BRITISH EAST AFRICA COMPANY, / INCORPORATED UNDER ROYAL CHARTER MAY 1887, / THROUGH WHOSE AGENCY / BRITISH EAST AFRICA / WAS SECURED TO GREAT BRITAIN / BORN AT CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, 31ST MARCH 1823, / DIED IN LONDON, 22ND JUNE 1893; around the base: MOMBASA TO KINTYRE THIS NATIVE WE DESIRE BY OUR AFFECTIONATE RECALL DARK EMPIRES TO ANNUL. ANGUS MARTIN 2003

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